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Characteristics of the Syntax of the English Plural
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Anderson, Alison A. – Linguistics, 1974
This paper uses paraphrastic analysis to clarify several concepts related to the syntax of the plural in English sentences. (CK)
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Plurals, Sentence Structure
On the Notions "Optional" and "Obligatory" in Linguistics
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Sanders, Gerald A. – Linguistics, 1977
An examination of the predicates "optional" and "obligatory" is made that suggests that they are far more appropriately viewed as derived rather than primitive notions, whose appropriate attributions follow in all cases from independent linguistic facts and principles of a much more general and more generally significant character. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Phonology, Sentence Structure
On Distinguishing Clause and Sentence
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Huttar, George L. – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, English, Linguistic Theory
A Set of Basic Patterns for the Semantic Structure of the Verb
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Ikegami, Yoshihiko – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Japanese, Language Patterns
Patient and Agent Orientation in Passive and Active Voice Sentences of English and Portuguese. Or: How Much of a Case? Or: Left without a Trace
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Brakel, C. Arthur – Linguistics, 1976
The purpose of this paper is to examine process- and agent-oriented sentences from the point of view of two theories of grammatical description: case grammar after Fillmore and tranformational grammar with modifications introduced by Chomsky. Subject and object functions are reflected in the initial structures of sentence derivation, regardless of…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, English, Portuguese